Chapter 28: The Fire Lotus

  "This is..." King Shi muttered.

  Only the lower right corner of the stone picture has another part of chaos, where there are majestic mountains and rivers, hundreds of birds flying together, with delicate lines, vivid images, and lifelike!

  Tweet!

  Wang Shi must have been hallucinating; he felt that the brightly colored bird flocks had actually taken to the skies, swirling and soaring. It was as if they were real!

  "What is this?" Wang Shi felt a bit unreal, shook his head hard, and those colorful birds still circled around him.

  Wang Shi wanted to take a closer look, but suddenly his head felt tight, and he had a dizzy feeling. A sharp pain burst forth from the depths of his brain.

  "Ah!" Wang Shi let out a miserable cry. He covered his head, and at this moment, his right eye suddenly shone brightly with a fiery red light, becoming ferocious and terrifying.

  "This painting has actually entered my mind!" Wang Shi cried out in alarm.

  In his mind, this stone picture unknowingly placed under the soul's fire, above it suddenly came alive with towering mountains and forests, growing green branches and leaves, numerous sturdy trees, just like a vast green sea!

  Those colorful birds fly around the soul fire, from time to time making a crisp sound.

  But all of this happened in an instant, the majestic mountains suddenly went crazy and grew branches wildly, instantly surrounding the Soul Fire. In the center, a thick branch burst out of the ground and directly inserted itself into the Soul Fire!

  Boom

  Wang Shi felt as if he had been crushed! Enduring the suffocating pain, his brain seemed to be about to explode.

  In his mind, suddenly a green hue emerged, as if full of life, yet containing death!

  In the center, those sturdy branches were like a straw, constantly devouring the soul fire, and the branches gradually turned scarlet, the entire forest suddenly turning scarlet, as if it had arrived in autumn!

  Wang Shi felt his soul slipping away, his consciousness gradually fading, and his body growing weaker. However, his right eye became even more fiery red, still radiating light!

  "What on earth is this?! Is this stone bead going to take his life?!" Wang Shi was frantic.

  In his mind, those colorful birds were still flying around, but their colors gradually turned fiery red, like clusters of flames.

  Buzzing

  That soul was left with only a little deep blue, outside, as if it would go out with one blow. If this soul goes out, then Wang Shi will also die! The soul can be said to be another heart in the body!

  "Are we really going to die?" Wang Shi felt a breath of death slowly spreading out.

  He didn't think that this bead would take his life, and now he somewhat regrets picking it up in the first place?! Its mysteriousness and power are completely beyond Wang Shi's control.

  But this world doesn't give you a second chance!

  He was reluctant! But ultimately had to close his eyes.

  "Huh?!" Wang Shi opened his eyes again after a while, and his expression was somewhat strange.

  In my mind's eye, fiery red is like a sea of fire, at this time those fiery red birds have disappeared, perhaps merging into this sea of fire.

  Wang Shi was stunned, this scene is truly magnificent!

  On the stone picture, the majestic mountains and peaks are no longer there, only a blooming fire lotus flower! The seven petals curve upwards, each with clear veins, like a flame!

  In the center of the fire lotus, there was a short and small fiery red stamen, on which lay that deep blue dot, serene and still.

  That deep blue dot, upon closer inspection, has a fiery red surging into it, like magma. And that deep blue dot is pulsating like a heartbeat, as if expanding and growing stronger! On the outside of that deep blue dot, a thin layer of pale red mist is gradually forming, very faint, very faint.

  Wang Shi was stunned, what is this? Mutation?!

  "That deep blue might be where the soul's essence lies, and the flames are its outer garment!" Wang Shi gained some understanding of the soul.

  "It's just that this coat seems to be a bit big!" Wang Shi felt somewhat depressed. This fire lotus was much bigger, and it couldn't be compared with the previous flame! If you had to compare, the latter was like baby clothes, while the former was adult clothes!

  And that dot of deep blue is just the size of a baby!

  Wang Shi was somewhat perplexed and still didn't understand what was going on, with no one giving him an answer.

  "Huh? This faint blue is absorbing the power of the fire lotus!" Wang Shi had observed for a long time before discovering that this change was too slight.

  "Although I don't understand what's going on, it seems like I'm not dead yet!" Wang Shi shook his head, and everything seemed to be developing in a good direction, with the power of his soul slowly growing stronger.

  That piece of stone is like soil, nurturing this fire lotus.

  "Could it be that this stone diagram is related to the soul?" He didn't know that this stone diagram represents the souls of all things, and is the essence of the Stone Pearl!

  ……….

  The northwest is desolate, just like the great wilderness, with mountains and rivers everywhere, and most of the scenery is Gobi Desert, even the desert is rampant. Each county was established on this barren land.

  In the northwest wilderness, suddenly a bright light appeared before my eyes. The mountains and rivers were beautiful, with nine mountain peaks rising from the ground, like sharp swords. The tops of the nine mountain peaks were shrouded in misty clouds, and nine waterfalls gushed out, colorful as clouds. They converged at a central mountain peak, which was like a screen.

  The mountain peak is sturdy, and it's better to say that it's a huge hill than a mountain peak. On top of this, a majestic palace stands tall, emitting a faint golden light, while the nine peaks surround it respectfully, like stars surrounding the moon.

  Inside the palace, it was empty and desolate, yet there were five old men sitting together in a circle. Above their heads, five beads of varying colors trembled slightly, emitting a kind of illusory fluctuation.

  Buzz

  Before long, an image was projected from the center.

  That was a portrait, very blurry, but at a glance it was a young man.

  Heh-heh

  Suddenly, the five pearls fell off, and their luster dimmed instantly. The five old men opened their eyes at the same time, and they all spat out a mouthful of blood, their faces turning pale!

  The image has also disappeared!

  "What's going on! We five people finally found the Soul Spirit Pearl with great difficulty, and we were about to find out who it belonged to. Now what kind of trouble has arisen again!" An old man said with a somewhat unpleasant expression.

  "Oh no, the Soul Map has fallen into that person's soul, severing all connections with the stone beads!" an old man said reluctantly.

  "What!" Everyone was stunned.

  "How could this be!"

  "Find that person quickly, if the Divine Map takes root in his soul, it's all over! His entire being will become a divine pearl, and when he dies, the divine pearl will die too!"

  "That person seems like a young man!"

  "What's going on?!" Everyone was anxious. If hundreds of years of hard work were destroyed in an instant, anyone would be furious enough to spit blood.

  "Alright, that person is a young man, our Five Great Sects' method of recruiting disciples will find him!"

  "Right, right, there are still three years until the next recruitment of disciples. Then let's recruit disciples ahead of time."

  "Alright, in half a year!"

  "What's the rush? The divine diagram will blend in so well, it'll be fine in a year and a half!"

  "Alright, but what if that person is no longer among those accepted disciples?"

  "Don't worry, someone who possesses the divine map won't be so ordinary."

  "Alright, it's settled then!"

  ………

  "Did you say Ling Mo is dead?!" a purple-robed old man suddenly said.

  "Even if I don't die, I'll still be merged with the divine pearl and lose consciousness."

  "Ling Mo's attainments in his soul are very high!" An old man sighed, with deep worry in his eyes.

  This made everyone think of what Ling Mo said before he disappeared:

  "One of the five sects, one day I will return!"

  Everyone couldn't help but take a cold breath!

  "Hurry up and find Shi Zhu, find that young man!"